Re: Echo recordings.

| From Elston Gresham
| Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:34:57 -0700 (PDT)
| Subject: [Audacity-help] Echo recordings.
| When I record streaming audio on my computer, (windows 2000), with
| audacity 1.2.6 I get an echo effect when I playback the recording. I hear
| two beats instead of one. What is the cause and what can I do to clean
| this up.

Please turn off "Software Playthrough" on the Audio I/O tab of Audacity
Preferences - this should not be used when recording streaming audio or
other sounds playing on the computer. This option is meant for playing
back physical inputs (e.g. microphone or line-in) whilst you are recording
from them, because without playthrough you would not be able to hear
them. But when you are recording sound playing on the computer you
must turn this option off, because you are recording the sound multiple
times (i.e. recording the original sound, then recording the playback of the
recording and so on) and so echoes are created.

You cannot effectively remove the echo from the recordings you have
already made, so you will have to record again, if it is possible to grab the
same program again.

Re: Echo recordings.

| From Elston Gresham | Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:34:57 -0700 (PDT)| Subject: [Audacity-help] Echo recordings.| When I record streaming audio on my computer, (windows 2000), with| audacity 1.2.6 I get an echo effect when I playback the recording. I hear | two beats instead of one. What is the cause and what can I do to clean | this up.

Please turn off "Software Playthrough" on the Audio I/O tab of Audacity Preferences - this should not be used when recording streaming audio or other sounds playing on the computer. This option is meant for playingback physical inputs (e.g. microphone or line-in) whilst you are recording from them, because without playthrough you would not be able to
hear them. But when you are recording sound playing on the computer youmust turn this option off, because you are recording the sound multiple times (i.e. recording the original sound, then recording the playback of the recording and so on) and so echoes are created.

You cannot effectively remove the echo from the recordings you have already made, so you will have to record again, if it is possible to grab the same program again.